Claire

*whimper* ...I want to leave work early tomorrow for ninja ukelele shenanigans with Amanda Palmer. Sadly, I suspect TPTB are not going to be too keen on this plan. Especially since I've had like 8 hours off this year already early, of which I have only made back about 5.5 so far. And I have to leave early both Thursday next week (wedding oh god) and Thursday the week after (flight to LA OH GOD). *TWITCH*

I know, I know, my life is epic pain and suffering etc, these are not exactly big or bad problems. I just. Want! SIGH. Being indispensable, at least least one of a very very small staff? SUCKS.

Sadly, under these circumstances I don't think I can parlay having worked an hour late today into getting away with it. In related news, IH all [particular product that by now I am really sick of both sampling and testing]. Seriously, whenever they are done with that road it better be the most awesome road ever. Because grrrrrr.

However, despite getting home way late I have got a lot done already, so frankly? YAY ME.

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And, lastly and totally unrelatedly, a very very happy birthday to my most darling melissa2u. I hope that you have a great day, I am thinking of you and sending much much love, always, and I hope this coming year treats you with kindness and brings you many joys, both the anticipated ones and the ones you don't expect. *lovelovelove*

Hi, all. We're going with the sort-of-notes format (edit: or, okay, apparently not. sorry?) again because, well, despite the fact I've been online for less than five hours today (shut UP, it's a Saturday! I am normally online for much longer on the weekends! Quit judging meeeee!) I can hardly see the screen at the moment (stupid tiredness, stupid eyes, stupid brain, etc), so:

But, firstly! Most importantly! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MELISSA! *smooches you* I hope you had a good day - it sounds as if you did - and I'm glad your family were wonderful for you and that work went okay and you got to speak to so many friends. Much love, as always, and I hope to have a chance to snug you in person again sometime in the near future. Cheers, darlin'.

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~I finally went to the mall today. I've only been putting this off for, uh, a month? Maybe a month and a half? ( My location is... bookshop! )

( Okay, I had to lj-cut a lot of this because it's short but it looks REALLY LONG when posted. Um. Please bear with me and read it anyway, I swear it's not all (or even mostly) fannish. )

And, lastly, we come to the point where I am going to take shameless advantage of you talented and knowledgable folks (yes, I am buttering you up for a reason, but it also happens to be accurate!) and have a short sharp round of Help Me Obi Wan FriendsList, You're My Only Hope!:

1. Does anyone have reccommendations for (preferably) desktop-based software (or some kind of firefox or gmail plugin, maybe?) that functions as a daily calendar/reminder type of thing? I don't know if I'm describing this well, but I am basically after something that will pop up or that is very easy for me to remember to look at daily that will tell me things like "this is X's birthday" or "I did/must do Y!" on such a day. I mention this firstly because I have SUCKED with birthdays this month so much I cannot even express it - I was late for Sunny and Mel and I forgot to ring Nicole entirely - and I love the semagic reminder feature but obviously, a) not everyone has their birthday listed on LJ and 2) there are non-birthday reminders I want as well!

2. KAT DO NOT READ THIS ONE, OKAY? Can people rec me really good Jack/Daniel? Please? Because I can totally see it, and I want to read it, but for whatever reason I am apparently inordinately, horribly picky about this pairing and so far have only read like three fics TOTAL that actually work for me without making me twitch or sidle away going "...nah". Just, you know, whatever your favouritest fics are. That would be lovely. Thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled LJ. Unless I think of something else, anyway. <3

In conclusion? Vala/Cameron/Daniel. Because yum.